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Create Digital & Multimedia Storytelling/Books:

• -Students can collaborate on the same book

Poetry:

• Learning Lab - with questions and activities for specific various audiovisual poems: thePoetryFoundation

• Eight stations created by several NISD librarians to engage students & review poetry devices & TEKS. -See Mr. T. for details.

• View poems as they roll across screen of large smartphone (1,000s of to choose from) : poetryflow

Figurative Language:

• Powerpt intro. to symbols and metaphors:
  

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• Powerpoint introduction to figurative language:
  

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• Intro similes and metaphors with the top 10 greatest examples in Hip-Hop/Rap music: Flocabulary

• How to create similes and metaphors: Contact me for file

• Figures of speech examples Great collection of video, audio & real world examples: americanrhetoric

Research:

• ELA TEKS & skills re: Research covered by library research project:

  

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• See Research Page

Drama:

• Our very World Book Database has a Dramatic Learning section with great resource with: plays, lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in go to World Book Classroom): click on pic

Anne Frank & the Holocaust:

• search created by our librarian, Mr. T - you can use search terms such as:

  • 1920s, 1930s, depression, stock market, dust bowl, roaring 20s, causes of WWI, causes of WWII, New Deal, and try more & different terms!

• 2-Day & 5 Holocaust Stations in the Library -designed by librarian specialists - reviewing background history; following the lives of children in the Holocaust, & much more! -See Mr.T. for details.

• Great site of Anne's story w/audio and walk around in the 3-D interactive of the Secret Annex: ICTmagic

• - Googlelittrips - events in a novel about Anne Frank are mapped out on Google Earth trips

Persuasive Techniques:

• Lesson plans: activities for assisting students in analyzing info. and identifying bias, perusasive techniques, and misinformation -FactCheckED

• Students flip through cool virtual magazine to analyze propaganda used: BAM!